Walking with a purpose

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: (Philippians 2:3-5)  What have you done for someone else lately? Like really stop and look at the last few days of your life... What have you done for someone else? Okay if you have some something for someone else have you done it for the right reasons?  People really only purely live to make good impressions. Rarely in a society like today's does a person do something just because they want to be sweet. Paul writes asking the Philippians to love one another and be one in spirit and purpose... It's simple when we work together caring for one another we demonstrate Christ's example of putting others first it's a symbol of unity.  Think about Jesus... He was so humble. Willing so many times to give up his own rig...

There have been a few times in this precious life of mine where I have been so guilty of not giving 100% especially in my relationship with God. These past few days I've been in a golf tournament and it always amazes me how God deals with me when I'm in a setting such as this one. Before I even started competing this week I received a heart wrecking text from a friend where she brought up this thought " Romans 12:1-2 you are probably familiar with-- Be transformed by the renewing of your mind!! Well sometimes I forget to continue asking God to transform my heart an renew my mind and thoughts. We need to be able to recognize our negative thoughts and patterns and realize that God is our partner and power over them!! We need to put a stop to those thoughts as soon as we realize that they are not from God. But we can't do this without filling our mind with something new and life- that is Gods Word! We must then repeat new positive thoughts to ourselves over and over- it t...

All summer I have been on this journey of finding myself and becoming a more confident me. While on this journey I've had to identify with things that I didn't really want to address. No matter what these things were they all had a central theme of personal forgiveness. Now I'm going to let you all in on something as my readers and that is that all summer I've been struggling with listening to God he's been telling me to talk about personal forgiveness and its come up in multiple settings. I think in a sense I ran from it because I had not truly forgiven myself for all of the sins I've committed even though I've asked for forgiveness. So in preparation for this blog God led me to Psalm 103... I love how David's praise is focused on what God is doing for him but where God wrecks me are in verses 12 and 13 "as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has...

" The Lord is my helper I will not be afraid..." Hebrews 13:6  Last year I had the chance to be a mentor to a group of freshmen during that week we spent the day at an outdoor camp with all kinds of activities. One of my freshmen talked me into getting in the zip line rotation and of course knowing that it was a fear of mine I still got in the line. The time came for me to climb the ladder and meet the attendant at the top and I felt sick. I looked down and saw all these people and I thought to myself "what am I doing?" The attendant could see the nervousness in my face and she touched my shoulder and said " I know you don't know me but I want you to know that it's going to be okay. It looks scary now but first off find comfort in knowing that you are safe and I'm not going to let anything happen to you, trust me and just jump right into the air and enjoy this." I said a quick prayer and jumped.... All summer I've been attempting to conquer...

I wish I could convey my excitement about this series of blogs I'm embarking on the next three weeks but instead I'm going to hope that it is evident in my thoughts that I put down.  Fear has been a huge topic for me lately, and my fear has in a sense kept me from being completely transparent with God. It always blows my mind when God reaches down and drops something in my spirit. Tonight I'm in the car listening to the radio and ordinarily my mind doesn't really key in to things that are going on around me, but tonight God was telling me to pay attention. Natalie Grant was talking about her new single "Hurricane" and what inspired her to write it. She talked about how it's he was in a deep depression and she found solace and comfort in the story where Jesus walked on water.... I came home and I decided to brush up on my Bible skills regarding Jesus and his ministry. I went immediately to that story found in Matthew 14:22-33 but verse 28 is the one that re...

"I'll sit on his sunlight as long as he's sitting with me"  At the beginning of the summer I had one of the realist conversations ever with my dad and for the first time I was really listening. He talked about how I had been running from where God was calling me to for so long, trying to please everyone but me. He said "just be Creseida" you know that in 22 years of life that no one had ever told me to do that?  "As a father shows compassion to his children, so the  Lord  shows compassion to those who fear him ." Psalm 103:13 I'm very blessed I have two fathers, I have my real earthly blood dad and then I have God. God is like a father, tender and compassionate. Not every child is blessed to have a relationship with their earthly father but I'm very thankful that I have had my father. Make no mistake though just because you don't have a relationship with your biological father doesn't mean God is not there. God offers himself to us,...

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:1, 9, 10)  I think I have probably read this particular text about the creation so many times in my lifetime as a Christian, but today I'm seeing this text in a whole new light coming off of my vacation. I sat on the beach the other day and I stood in awe of where I was at that particular time in my life. I could not help but see how amazing God is. As I prepare for the next chapter of my life my goal is to look at it with fresh eyes. My goal is to see something new and amazing everyday that God gives me. I had a conversation with someone I worked with recently as I was preparing for a huge interview. He was telling me sometimes when people have been in the same position in life that it seems hard for ...